Comments on: Verizon’s Galaxy SIII Appears in Benchmark, Looks Again Like a Snapdragon S4https://www.droid-life.com/2012/05/12/verizons-galaxy-siii-appears-in-benchmark-looks-again-like-a-snapdragon-s4/
An intense Android news community bringing you the latest in phones, rooting, apps, and reviews.Thu, 14 Dec 2017 00:55:00 +0000hourly1By: vaxickhttps://www.droid-life.com/2012/05/12/verizons-galaxy-siii-appears-in-benchmark-looks-again-like-a-snapdragon-s4/#comment-1798620
Mon, 04 Jun 2012 08:30:00 +0000http://www.droid-life.com/?p=69521#comment-1798620Yay, another phone on Verizon with a outdated GPU. 😐 The Adreno 225 is getting way too old. Even LG of all companies is going with the Adreno 320 which is a massive step up in performance.
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Fri, 18 May 2012 18:05:00 +0000http://www.droid-life.com/?p=69521#comment-1712327I’d buy off contract to have unlimited data from VZW, I typically buy used 3-6 months after a phone comes out anyway. But that is a dick move on their behalf. Then again no carriers truly care about their customers. Also, as long as it doesn’t put you into a contract, that’s actually pretty awesome (basically what I was looking for when I made the switch, contracts are BS and I don’t mind shelling out 300-400 for a phone.)
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Fri, 18 May 2012 17:35:00 +0000http://www.droid-life.com/?p=69521#comment-1712241Josh, I wish that could happen. But yesterday Verizon announced what you get if you buy the device outright is the same plan, but unlimited data. That sure doesn’t sound like “rent me some bandwidth” and charge up an ID card to me. That is more an in-your-face public relations move because of negative publicity on the “we don’t care about keeping our customers” plan.
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Wed, 16 May 2012 01:03:00 +0000http://www.droid-life.com/?p=69521#comment-1699416agree with @facebook-662976975:disqus. you can’t buy what’s not for sale. there’s no future for motorola in selling off all their patents alone. their annual revenue is $13B. $12.5B is only one year of revenue. after all that IP is gone, then what? IP brings in a LOT of money. making money off hardware alone is tough, especially when the guts of all these phones is very very similar so differentiating is hard. just look at their operating income: it’s negative. even with all that IP they are struggling. take away a cash cow from a ship that is at risk of sinking and it’s over. can’t see the incentive for essentially cutting off your own head, so they had to ensure they had a future. makes sense.

and you’re right, we dont know for sure what they were thinking. but what we do know is what most of the industry experts say. the people whose bread and butter job is to know the industry better than anyone by understanding the players, having the contacts, etc. not saying they’re the end all be all, but when everyone says they bought it for patents, they probably did. sure, we could engineer all these great ideas that make sense for why they did it, but the reality is the simplest answer sometimes is the best one.

did google have other incentives or ideas? sure, why not? were they well thought out? probably not. and that’s most likely why there were rumblings of them selling it off so quickly. someone had a great idea to buy a bunch of cheap IP. they would just have to figure out what to do with the rest of the company. then, they come up with some half baked ideas, sell it to decision makers on both sides, and deal done. months later they realized those ideas are likely going to stay half baked without a ton of investment and maybe they bail. tough to say what they will do, but there seems to be some incentive to let someone else deal with the mess they made because it’s cheaper and easier.

google does this kind of thing all the time. they are practically a fire hose of money. they throw money at a problem and hope it turns out for the best. when it starts to look like a total mess, they get rid of it. look at their acquisition portfolio. almost all of them are half baked good ideas that failed or have yet to pay dividends. a small percentage are groundbreaking youtube acquisitions.

regardless of my soapbox diatribe above, i really hope we dont lose moto. for all their faults, we need as much competition in the market as possible. and i personally like what they bring to the table.

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Tue, 15 May 2012 23:44:00 +0000http://www.droid-life.com/?p=69521#comment-1699230well duh
we know they wouldn’t just sell their patents, but why do you think, or seem to think, they’d just sell out to Google if there was some risk of Google just turning around and flipping them minus their patents anyway? I just don’t see that happening.
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Tue, 15 May 2012 19:13:00 +0000http://www.droid-life.com/?p=69521#comment-1697845you cant buy what is not for sale. Motorola had no incentive to sell JUST the patients. Doing so would have left them with nothing of worth. The ONLY way they would agree to sell anything to Google was all or nothing.
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Tue, 15 May 2012 13:44:00 +0000http://www.droid-life.com/?p=69521#comment-1696977Every other could also imply that every carrier other than Verizon charges $36, hence my response.
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Tue, 15 May 2012 06:56:00 +0000http://www.droid-life.com/?p=69521#comment-1696251And I am pretty sure I said every other… Implying that not every carrier charges the $36 fee.
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Tue, 15 May 2012 05:44:00 +0000http://www.droid-life.com/?p=69521#comment-1696241I don’t follow your thinking.
If we assume that no one really knows what Google is thinking about what to do with Motorola then how can anyone be so certain they only bought them for patents in the first place?
Corporations the size of Google don’t buyout other firms for one part and then play roulette with what to do with the rest of them. If patents were all they wanted, what would possess them to buyout the whole company?
Buying the patents alone, which is the most obvious alternative, would’ve been cheaper and cost them less energy, because they’ve now got to find a buyer for a company newly devoid of their most attractive aspect…
I personally can’t imagine the whole buyout being worth that extra energy.
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Mon, 14 May 2012 20:30:00 +0000http://www.droid-life.com/?p=69521#comment-1695174i dont think anyone knows what google is “more than likely” to do with Motorola at this point. based on all the patent wars in the mobile tech space and the sheer volume that motorola had, it seems an obvious “duh” that google bought them first for their patents. beyond that, who knows? maybe google didn’t even have a solid “beyond that” plan. looking at the mobile tech chess pieces, gobbling up moto was the cheapest way to acquire a TON of mobile patents as far as i can tell. the alternative (trying to buy samsung or nokia) would have been crazy difficult/impossible/not worth it/etc…

note: my thoughts above have nothing to do with my biases as a consumer, just what seems obvious. personally, i like motorola devices better from a hardware perspective. i dont care about custom skins or locked bootloaders. there are things to love and hate about each hardware OEM.

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Mon, 14 May 2012 19:37:00 +0000http://www.droid-life.com/?p=69521#comment-1695000i dont think anyone knows what google is “more than likely” to do with Motorola at this point. based on all the patent wars in the mobile tech space and the sheer volume that motorola had, it seems an obvious “duh” that google bought them first for their patents. beyond that, who knows? maybe google didn’t even have a solid “beyond that” plan. looking at the mobile tech chess pieces, gobbling up moto was the cheapest way to acquire a TON of mobile patents as far as i can tell. the alternative (trying to buy samsung or nokia) would have been crazy difficult/impossible/not worth it/etc…

note: my thoughts above have nothing to do with my biases as a consumer, just what seems obvious. personally, i like motorola devices better from a hardware perspective. i dont care about custom skins or locked bootloaders. there are things to love and hate about each hardware OEM.

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Mon, 14 May 2012 19:37:00 +0000http://www.droid-life.com/?p=69521#comment-1695002i dont think anyone knows what google is “more than likely” to do with Motorola at this point. based on all the patent wars in the mobile tech space and the sheer volume that motorola had, it seems an obvious “duh” that google bought them first for their patents. beyond that, who knows? maybe google didn’t even have a solid “beyond that” plan. looking at the mobile tech chess pieces, gobbling up moto was the cheapest way to acquire a TON of mobile patents as far as i can tell. the alternative (trying to buy samsung or nokia) would have been crazy difficult/impossible/not worth it/etc…

note: my thoughts above have nothing to do with my biases as a consumer, just what seems obvious. personally, i like motorola devices better from a hardware perspective. i dont care about custom skins or locked bootloaders. there are things to love and hate about each hardware OEM.

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Mon, 14 May 2012 18:46:00 +0000http://www.droid-life.com/?p=69521#comment-1694835Yes they do, and they were made in 2010, here we are 2 years later and nVidia/Samsung are developing SOC’s that DONT support LTE. So Im a ignorant fool because they are still coming out with new chips that dont support LTE? Good job troll.
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Mon, 14 May 2012 17:28:00 +0000http://www.droid-life.com/?p=69521#comment-1694637shut up. you are annoying
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Mon, 14 May 2012 14:10:00 +0000http://www.droid-life.com/?p=69521#comment-1694409I agree that Motorola still makes the best hardware. The phone call quality and reception are always top notch. Best speakerphones, and handset audio on both ends of a call. Also they make the sturdiest hardware. I can’t tell you what abuse my Original Droid took, as well as my Droid X and my Droid Bionic. Those phones took a beating and survived many drops to concrete without shattering the screen.
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